[No place - Milwaukee?]: The Author, 1900.
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Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. [1-3] 4-430pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings. With two small octavo letterpress broadsides dating from 1900 tipped-in on the first page of the Index, and laid down onto final blank leaf. Bound in dark blue cloth over boards, decorated and titled in gold, and with a clover stamped in white. Modest wear to the board edges and corners, partial tearing to the endpapers along the hinges, very good or better. Inscribed on the first leaf recto by one Medal of Honor winner to another: “To Companion Robert A. Gray of the Medal of Honor Legion, this History of a gallant Regiment of which I had the honor to serve, is respectfully inscribed with the best wishes of Geo. E. Albee, 1st Lieut. Bvt. Capt. U.S. Army, New Haven, Conn. June 10, 1901.” Albee is mentioned prominently throughout the history (including his personal meeting with Lincoln on behalf of the Regiment), which reveals that he received the Medal of Honor for his actions against hostile Indians in 1869 on the Brazos River in Texas. Gray won his Medal of Honor for returning to the battlefield at Drurys Bluff, Virginia after his regiment had retreated in order to rescue a wounded officer. Also unique to this copy is a broadside neatly tipped-in along the gutter of the first page of the Index (so that the Index page is completely visible). It is the “Affidavit of Patrick H. Doody, 1st Sergt. Co. F, 164th New York Vols.” (19 November, 1900), in which he repudiates a slight made against the Regiment that had appeared in an article. A second broadside is neatly laid down on the recto of the final leaf. It prints the text of a motion made at the August 29, 1900 reunion of the “Association of Survivors of the 36th Wis. Vol. Infty” to honor “Comrade Geo. W. Albee”. A handsome copy with a nice association.
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